Shadi Al-Atallah

had the pleasure of having @emilycsteer at my studio to talk about holes as places of loss, desire and tranformation. we spoke about sleep paralysis, limbs, clinical rooms and what it means to sculpt a figure from its surroundings. really enjoyed the conversation—thank you emily and @ocula.art link to the feature in my bio.

Come along with us as we visit @ramenate London studio. He paints figures whose poses are influenced by the queer ballroom scene and folkloric dances from the African diaspora. Dynamic yet dreamlike, his paintings play with ambiguities in gender, time, and perception. Find more #QueerArtNow at the link in bio 🔗

Boy.Brother.Friend Issue 11 – Love – Taxonomy of Touch - Cover 2 of 3. Boy.Brother.Friend, Issue 11 - Love - Winter - 2025/26 is here and will be in select stores globally. For the Eleventh issue, the publication offers a selection of three front covers, and one digital cover. Shop the issue NOW via Link in Bio. Our Love issue features London based artist Shadi Al-Atallah whose work combines drawing and painting to explore the human body in moments of transformation, connection and vulnerability. His pieces depict psycho-sexual conflict between two or more figures embroiled in intimate entanglements. Enjoy! Artist: @ramenate Artwork: All I could have been had you not struck me in, 2023, acrylic, pencil, ink and oil pastel on canvas 182 × 130 cm Print distribution by @antennebooks & @kdpresse Discover and shop the issue NOW via Link in Bio. #BoyBrotherFriend #11 #Love

A new year, and I wanted to mark it by acknowledging COBRA while it’s still open. This exhibition was urgent for me to make and it exists because of many conversations over the past year, long before the work was legible. Thanks to the gallery @elizabethxibauer for realising it with so much care. This last year has been difficult, but also deeply revealing and fulfilling. COBRA closes 24 January and is open Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6pm. If you’re able to visit the show before it closes, I’d really love that. Image credit: Shadi Al-Atallah: COBRA installation. Photograph: Richard Ivey. Courtesy of the Artists and Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London.

Elizabeth Xi Bauer is pleased to present ‘COBRA’, an exhibition of new works by Shadi Al-Atallah, a London-based Saudi artist known for emotionally charged figurative paintings that inhabit liminal spaces between intimacy and conflict. While themes of identity, queerness, and spirituality remain central to his practice, ‘COBRA’ marks a striking transformation—shifting from the painterly to the immersive, from the singular image to a multi-sensory world of video, sound, object, and light. Al-Atallah’s figures—often genderless, fragmented, or in states of transformation—resist binary readings and evoke a terrain of contradictions. Drawing on religious mythology, literature, science, and gender theory, his visual language returns to the body: naked, unbound, and in motion. This exhibition will be accompanied by curatorial text written by Malak Alhajri. Alhajri is an independent art curator and a multidisciplinary creative based in London. She works between text, sound, and collective practice - often referencing mass culture, experimental approaches, and speculative themes. 2. ‘Sketchbook Study’ (detail), 2025. Digital artwork, 728 x 1299 px. Courtesy of the Artist and Elizabeth Xi Bauer, London COBRA Shadi Al-Atallah Private View 27th November 2025, 6 – 8 pm  The gallery will be closed for the installation until 28th November 2025  🔗 Click the link in our bio for more information  Elizabeth Xi Bauer  _______________  Fuel Tank, 8-12 Creekside  London, SE8 3DX  020 3048 5220  [email protected]  @ramenate @malajri

states of existence / despite

hold tight and release Time crushed itself around you, 2025 acrylic, charcoal, ink and chinagraph pencil 90 x 70 x 3.5 cm

Thank you to everyone who came out last night and to Shadi for teaching us about Holes! 💙

Four more days of Hole. Closes on the 22nd @niruratnamgallery 💫 at the event horizon, 2025 acrylic, charcoal, ink and chinagraph pencil 50 x 150 x 3.5 cm

10 more days to catch my solo show. Hole is up at @niruratnamgallery until February 22nd. I’m also doing an artist tour with @135homestudio —if you’re queer and Black or part of the global majority, please join us 🤍 ONE TO W(HOLE) TO ONE, 2025 acrylic, charcoal, ink and chinagraph pencil 50 x 50 x 3.5 cm

𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘴⁣ acrylic, charcoal, ink, and chinagraph pencil on cotton⁣ (2024)⁣ 165 x 135 cm⁣ ⁣ currently on view at @niruratnamgallery 🕳️ 💫 ⁣ ⁣ photo credit: Damian Griffiths ⁣

my solo show Hole is now open at @niruratnamgallery until February 22nd! thanks to everyone who came out last night for the preview 🌹 🕳️